Action items -- Listed by personal name

[Incoming Executive Board members indicated by parentheses().]

All Board Members:

Action item: Outgoing Board members to send materials to the Society archives. March 31. (2H. Files sent to Syracuse University by Retiring Board Members)

Action item: All attachments sent on the Board listserve will be in Microsoft 95 software until all members have upgraded to later versions. (3A. Board Email Discussion Minutes)

Action item: Board to comment via Board listserve on January-June 2000 Management Calendar as distributed, with special attention to the March-June section (for eventual revision by McKenzie). March 30. (5B. Management Calendar)

Action item: McKenzie to distribute July-December 2000 Management Calendar to Board for comment. April 15. Board to recommend revisions. May 15. (5B. Management Calendar)

Adrean:

Action item: Adrean to notify Los Angeles CPAC of Lockard's report that Friday tours appeared to have the greatest popularity among the Conference registrants. May 1. (4A1. Program Sessions, Special Events, Tours, Workshops)

Action item: Adrean will initiate discussions with the Twin Cities and the Michigan Chapters regarding the possibility of merging with the Mid-States Chapter, following the model of the Mountain West Chapter. April 30. (7B3a. Michigan Chapter)

Berger:

Action item: Berger and Corbetta-Noyes to forward revised Chapter Success Book to Sean Percival. April 10. Percival to replace existing Book on AWS. April 15. (5E. Chapter Success Book)

Action item: Kempe to provide copies of the New England Chapter's membership services survey to Berger and Corbetta-Noyes for inclusion in the Chapter Success Book. April 5. (7B4. New England Chapter membership survey)

Blank:

Action item: Blank to add date line to signature area on Email motion consent form. Consent form mailings will have text in the subject line indicating: "Please sign and return." (3A. Board Email Discussion Minutes)

Action item: Blank to mail Goodman necessary disks of email archives to produce email discussion minutes for the period from the Vancouver conference to the Berkeley Midyear meeting. May 15. Goodman to produce minutes and post to Linda Zieper for Update submission deadline for issue #4. June 10. (3A. Board Email Discussion Minutes)

Action item: Blank to post Berkeley Midyear meeting to Pittsburgh Conference email discussion minutes and post to Linda Zieper for Update submission deadline for issue #4. June 10. (3A. Board Email Discussion Minutes)

Action item: Blank to report at Toronto Midyear meeting on AWSAB guidelines and policies regarding advertising in Society web space at the Society and Chapter levels. Sept. 22. (5F1. Advertising on the AWS)

Action item: Blank to notify Lally, Conference Proceedings Editor, to propose guidelines to the Board for the production of the Proceedings. Lally to report those guidelines to Wayne for presentation to the Board at Toronto Midyear. April 15. (6A. Conference Proceedings)

Action item: Blank to solicit comments from Linda Zieper, Update Editor, and the Publications Committee regarding how much of Update should be provided on the AWS for free and in what format an electronic version of Update should appear. At Committee meeting. (6B1. Update Electronic Distribution)

Action item. Blank to request Publications Committee to create guidelines for the retention and disposal of Society publications. At Committee meeting. (6B2. Retention Guidelines for Society Publications)

Action item: Blank to ask Membership Committee to consider means to reach the ARLIS-L subscriber base as part of a membership drive, including making a periodic membership drive on ARLIS-L. At Committee meeting. (7A3. Membership Recruitment)

Action item: Blank to revise Policy Manual C-3 in accordance with Motion #67. May 30. (7B1. Board Participation as Chapter Officers)

Action item: Blank to advise Poole, Membership Committee Chair, that the revised membership form must be submitted to the Board by June 1 for approval. This information will be forwarded to the new management firm to develop a new membership application and renewal form in coordination with the Committee, for mailing by Nov. 1. At Committee meeting. (7C2a. Membership Committee Application and Renewal Form)

Action item: Blank to inform Committee that Membership Recruitment Task Force Report no longer required. At Committee Meeting. (7C2c. Membership Recruitment Task Force Report)

Action item: Bylaws amendments for increasing business dues and affiliating with the Museum Computers Network (MCN) to be posted to the membership by April 15. Wayne to send MCN text to McKenzie. McKenzie to produce cover letter. Ballots will be returned to Blank for counting. (8C. Business Dues--Bylaws Change)

Action item: Wayne to continue negotiations with John Benjamins regarding Benjamins support for the Society. Blank to inform Research Committee that the Benjamins Award will definitely not be funded. At Committee meeting. (9A1. Benjamins Award)

Action item: Blank to discuss with Statistics Task Force the necessity of continuing with their charge and raise the issue of dissolving the Task Force. At Task Force meeting. (10B. Statistics Task Force)

Chibnik:

Action item: Jacoby, with input from Chibnik, to prepare options for funding support of Motion #65 (supporting the ARLIS/NA IFLA 2001 reception) for presentation at the Post-Conference meeting. (4B5. IFLA 2001 Conference, Boston)

Action item: Chibnik to contact McKenzie with date(s) relating to the 90 day membership renewal period for insertion into the Management Calendar. (7A. 2000 Renewals)

Corbetta-Noyes:

Action item: Berger and Corbetta-Noyes to forward revised Chapter Success Book to Sean Percival. April 10. Percival to replace existing Book on AWS. April 15. (5E. Chapter Success Book)

Action item: Kempe to provide copies of the New England Chapter's membership services survey to Berger and Corbetta-Noyes for inclusion in the Chapter Success Book. April 5. (7B4. New England Chapter membership survey)

(Goodman:)

Action item: Blank to mail Goodman necessary disks of email archives to produce email discussion minutes for the period from the Vancouver conference to the Berkeley Midyear meeting. May 15. Goodman to produce minutes and post to Linda Zieper for Update submission deadline for issue #4. June 10. (3A. Board Email Discussion Minutes)

Action item: Goodman to pass on names of the Howard and Beverly Karno Award applicants to Lynagh for use as recruitment tool for building membership in Mexico. May 30. (7B5a. Recruitment of new members in Mexico)

Action item: Goldsmith to write brief article for Update on decision indicating why the Divisions, Sections, Round Tables section was deleted from the Handbook for 2000/2001. Update #3 deadline, April 10. (7C2a. Membership Committee Application and Renewal Form)

Graham:

Action item: Graham to forward Policy Manual revisions to Sean Percival for posting on AWS. April 1. Percival to add to AWS. April 15. (5C. Policy Manual Changes 1999/2000 Overview)

Action item: Graham will notify the AWSAB of any necessary EATF issues and Graham will notify the EATF members that the Task Force has been dissolved. April 30. (6C. Electronic Archives Task Force (EATF))

(Jacoby:)

Action item: Jacoby, with input from Chibnik, to prepare options for funding support of Motion #65 (supporting the ARLIS/NA IFLA 2001 reception) for presentation at the Post-Conference meeting. (4B5. IFLA 2001 Conference, Boston)

Action item: Jacoby, McKenzie, Wayne to discuss history of relationship between VRA and ARLIS/NA with Ann Whiteside, VRA President. When appropriate. (7A3. Membership Recruitment)

Action item: Jacoby to raise the issue of the need for clear guidelines and directives for the Development Committee and report back at Post-conference